Young Guard of United Russia

The Young Guard of United Russia is the youth wing of the United Russia party, founded in 2005 as a pro-Kremlin youth direct action group. It was founded to unite the Russian youth and to engage young people in the social-political life of Russia, and it grew to have 160,000 members in 85 regional branches across Russia from Kaliningrad and Crimea in the west to Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean in the east.